Dennis Raphael
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Dennis Raphael
@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, potato cannon engineer, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, socialist since grade 6. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about .. more

Dennis Raphael is a Canadian social scientist who has written extensively on the social inequalities in health in Canada and elsewhere.

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Public Health 31%
Political science 22%

Defining health through a critical materialist political economy lens.
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Opinion | I was recruited to join a private health centre as a doctor. Here is why I said no
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Middle of road NDP party loses.

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Promoting Health Equity in an Era of Growing Contradictions Between Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Economies
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Promoting Health Equity in an Era of Growing Contradictions Between Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Economies - Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, Rozhin Amin, 2025
Background: Despite a robust literature on the importance of promoting health equity, actual progress in doing so is flagging and this is especially the case in...
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📢 THANK YOU for engaging with our #Inequality Graph of the Week series. We've now come to the end of the graphs in the main report of 'The Spirit Level at 15' but there are more graphs and evidence to see in the Technical Appendix for those interested. ♥️
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Despite promising a “generational” and “transformational” budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney is doubling down on resource extraction, militarism, and corporate handouts—appeasing Donald Trump and Canada’s corporate class, but doing little for working people.

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A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
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This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said...
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My full statement on Zohran Mamdani's historic win.

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New Yorkers just proved bold socialist ideas can win. Ottawa just proposed the most harmful climate and care budget since Harper.

Bold ideas win and we need to rebuild that kind of NDP.

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WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
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The arc of his success is nothing short of staggering. At the start of the year, Mamdani was polling at 1%, tied, as he likes to say, with the candidate known as “someone else.”

Now, at age 34, he will be NYC's youngest leader in more than a century
How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him.
Zohran Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory in NYC, Triumphing Over Billionaire Onslaught
Mamdani is one of just a few democratic socialists to ever win the seat for the largest city in the U.S.
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Zohran Mamdani’s opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
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New York was once a city of possibilities, even for the less well-off. Can it be again?, wonders columnist Errol Louis.
Zohran Mamdani’s Young Revolution
New York was once a city of possibilities, even for the less well-off. Can it be again?, wonders columnist Errol Louis.
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